The Natural Resources Canada Booth Street Campus.

The former Department of Energy, Mines and Resources property is a National Interest Land Mass. The definition of a National Interest Land Mass:
NILM identifies lands that are essential to the achievement of the NCC's mandate. Lands identified within the NILM are required to support the symbolism, functions, physical structure, and natural and cultural landscape qualities of Canada's Capital. A NILM designation indicates a formal expression of the federal government's interest in the long-term use of these lands in a manner that supports Canada's Capital. The NILM is a key vehicle for the implementation of the NCC's long-range plans.
The NRCan campus should be a Heritage Conservation District, protected by Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act. Criteria:

• A concentration of heritage buildings, sites, structures and cultural landscapes.
• Visual coherence through the use of building scale, mass, height, material, proportion,colour that convey a sense of time and place.
• A distinctive character that allows them to be distinguishable from neighbouring areas. 

A document that I received from the Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office, Gatineau Quebec.

 The City of Toronto refused to let Larco Investments build towers on the Dominion Public Building, 1 Front Street West in Toronto. The Dominion Public Building, Royal York Hotel, John Street Roundhouse and Union Station are part of the Union Station Heritage Conservation District.
I cannot understand why Ottawa's Little Italy and The Farm are not Heritage Conservation Districts. People who live and work in Ottawa should have control over the landscape and development of their own neighbourhoods. Not business people and architects from Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal. Why should our children and grandchildren be deprived of parks and other public spaces? There should be a moratorium on the privatization of federal property that is collectively owned by the people of Canada.
Our children are just as important as the royal children who live in England...the royal family owns hundreds of thousands of acres of land at their castles in Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral.
Yet the people of Ottawa are losing The Farm, Queen Juliana Park, PWGSC green space and Dominion Buildings. The telescope at the Dominion Observatory is gone. The Fraser Institute is calling for the devolution of all of the National Parks in British Columbia to the province of B.C. And Parks Canada may privatize $8 billion dollars worth of infrastructure in the National Parks including nature trails, roads and highways.

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The Canadian National Railway was known as "The People's Railway" when it was a Crown corporation. The CNR was built physically and through their tax dollars by my ancestors. Yet the richest man in the world owns the CNR now. During the early 1970's I paid $100 dollars for a railway pass that gave me the opportunity to see Canada from coast-to-coast. I am reminded of the movie "Festival Express", when Janis Joplin, the Band, Ian and Sylvia, Buddy Guy and the Grateful Dead traveled across Canada on a train.